Posts Tagged ‘Antonin Dvorak’
Johannes Debus Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Compelling Dvořák Sixth Symphony
With the San Diego Symphony’s dazzling performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony at Friday’s concert, Dvořák lovers in Copley Symphony Hall were no doubt left swooning. Guest conductor Johannes Debus led an exuberant yet skillfully shaped account of the composer’s one mature symphony that stubbornly remains in the shadow of his mighty Eighth Symphony and beloved Ninth—the “New World.”
Read MoreThe Artistry of Emanuel Ax and Friends at La Jolla SummerFest
La Jolla SummerFest titled its Wednesday, August 22, concert “An Evening with Emanuel Ax.” But it was much better than that. It turned out to be an evening with Emanuel Ax and friends.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sunny Sunday Serenades
Festival programming that runs out of pleasant surprises is likely to overstay its welcome, so SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin came up with a pair highly unusual offerings by Britten and Elgar for Sunday’s (August 20) afternoon concert at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall . . .
Read MoreSummerFest Concert Spotlights Gems from Eastern Europe at UC San Diego
Saturday’s, August 5, SummerFest program at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall offered four stellar pianists, the exciting Miró Quartet, and the wonderful Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova . . .
Read MoreHaydn and Adès Sail with Hausmann Quartet at the Maritime Museum
Continuing its admirable Haydn Voyages series at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, the Hausmann Quartet offered a cannily varied program Sunday, May 28.
Read MoreA Most Welcome Czech Invasion: the PKF-Prague Philharmonia
The PKF-Prague Philharmonic brought its traditional all-Czech program to the Jacobs Music Center Wednesday (January 25), showing off its muscular, propulsive style and mellow Central European sound . . .
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